Your day is sure to be more enjoyable when it's filled with this incredible Coffee Lover's Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake. If you love anything coffee-flavored, you are bound to get excited over this insanely good coffee cake.
Ingredients
For the Topping and Filling:
1/3cupsugar
4 ½teaspoonsinstant coffee granules
1 ½teaspoonsground cinnamon
For the Coffee Cake:
1 ½cupsall-purpose flour
1teaspoonbaking powder
1/2teaspoonbaking soda
1/8teaspoonsalt
3tablespoonsbutter, softened
1/2cupsugar
1egg
1teaspoonvanilla extract
1cupsour cream
1cupsemi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350°. Grease an 8-inch square baking pan and set aside.
To make the topping/filling: In a small bowl combine the sugar, coffee granules and cinnamon; set aside.
To make the coffee cake: In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; set aside.
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter and sugar until crumbly, about 2 minutes. Beat in egg and vanilla until combined. Gradually add the flour mixture alternately with sour cream, beginning and ending with flour mixture. (The batter will be thick)
Spread half of the batter evenly into prepared baking pan and sprinkle with half the cinnamon-sugar topping and half the chocolate chips. Spoon the remaining batter in 8 dollops over the batter in the pan and spread gently. Sprinkle with the remaining cinnamon-sugar and chocolate chips.
Bake 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.